Recent updates leave the interface largely unchanged but notably add the ability to sync with the popular Google Reader service, while eliminating NetNewsWire's old NewsGator service. Last but hopefully not least, as Read/WriteWeb reports, I've joined the APML Workgroup and will offer my assistance and input on defining and implementing the APML specification.NetNewsWire is a serious RSS newsreader, a feature-filled desktop app specifically designed for voracious news consumers who want more RSS features than Safari and Mail provide. The NewsGator Online piece is still in the baby stages so there's nothing solid to announce yet, but we do want to let everyone know that it's in the works.
In addition, we're working on ideas for supporting APML in NewsGator Online (not just for individual users who want to access their private attention data, but also for the service as a whole – ex: "what's everyone paying attention to?"). Our hope is that by supporting APML, more third parties will be convinced to support it. This means you'll be able to share your attention data not only between our tools, but also with any service that supports APML. Once we've worked out a few details, we'll also support APML import. The first step will be APML export, which is already underway. Long story short: future releases of FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and NewsGator Inbox are all planning to support APML.
We liked the "Really Simple Attention" approach proposed by the APML Workgroup, so we decided to tinker with APML despite my misgivings about storing subscriptions and attention separately.
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This led to a wider discussion about APML among NewsGator folks, including NetNewsWire's Brent Simmons. But that idea also never caught on for various reasons.įast forward to a couple of weeks ago, when I was prompted to take another look at APML by NewsGator Inbox's Nick Harris. For that reason, I proposed an attention namespace for OPML - basically a way to store attention data within OPML.
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That's easy enough for software to deal with, of course, but it would be a burden for less-geeky end users wishing to share their data. I looked into using APML as an attention format a while ago, but at the time I didn't like the idea of storing a customer's feeds in an OPML file, and then storing their attention data in a separate APML file. As a result, many attention-related tools (including FeedDemon) rely on their own proprietary attention formats - which works fine for individual tools, but it doesn't enable customers to easily share their attention data between services.
While Attention.XML has been around for quite a while, for various reasons it hasn't really caught on. I've long been convinced that RSS aggregators can help people overcome information overload by first paying attention to what a user is reading, and then using that information to make better decisions about what might (or might not) be important to that user.Īnd I've also long been convinced that knowing what everyone is paying attention to, what your friends are paying to, etc., is a great way to uncover new and potentially important trends.Ī big roadblock in this process has been the lack of a standardized format for storing attention data. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that attention is a recurring theme here.
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